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i-mate JasJar

Guide price: £650.00

Mini-Laptop style phone/PDA. The i-mate JASJAR... Manufactured by HTC and sold in the UK as the O2 XDA Exec, i-mate JASJAR, Orange SPV M5000, T-Mobile MDA Pro, Qtek 9000 and Vodafone VPA IV. This is the first device to use Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system and is powered by the Intel XScale 520 MHz processor. It an ultra-powerful mobile communication device with wireless LAN, 3G, GSM, GPRS and Bluetooth. This is ideal for the business user on the move, facilitating the user with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF viewers, not to mention Pocket Outlook for emails. Other features include a full QWERTY keyboard, a high resolution 640x480 pixel touch screen, handwriting recognition, integrated video and music players, a 1.3 megapixel camera and an MMC/SDIO slot.

Hilary's conclusion: Very expensive, quite heavy and bulky, but if you are looking for a mobile more like a laptop than any other Smartphone then this is the one for you! This model has the fastest processor available (520MHz!) and the most useable keyboard for serious texting and emailing.